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Vaudeville took the form of a series of separate, unrelated acts each featuring different types of performance, including classical and popular musical acts, dance performances, comedy, animal acts, magic and illusions, female and male impersonators, acrobatic and athletic feats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, lectures, minstrels, or even ...
Vaudeville took the form of a series of separate, unrelated acts each featuring a different types of performance, including classical and popular musical acts, dance performances, comedy, animal acts, magic and illusions, female and male impersonators, acrobatic and athletic feats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, lectures, minstrels, or ...
Through vaudeville, many women were allowed to join their male counterparts on the stage and found success in their acts. Marie Dressler in "Tillie the Scrub Lady" (SAYRE 23576) Leila Marie Koerber, later Marie Dressler , was a Canadian actress who specialized in vaudeville comedy, and eventually won an Academy Award for Best Actress later in ...
Female impersonators (1 C, 27 P) M. Music hall performers (9 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Vaudeville performers" ... List of vaudeville performers: A–K;
Classic female blues [101] Clara Smith: 1894* 1935 South Carolina Classic female blues [102] J. T. "Funny Papa" Smith: 1885* 1940* U.S. Country blues [103] Mamie Smith: 1883 1946 Ohio Vaudeville blues [45] Pinetop Sparks: 1910 1935 Mississippi Boogie woogie [104] Speckled Red: 1892 1973 Louisiana Boogie woogie [105] Victoria Spivey: 1906 1976 ...
This is a list of notable African-American singers that gives their year of birth and music genres with which they are ... vaudeville; Anita Baker (born 1958), R&B ...
Women and African-American performers were not allowed to join. The White Rats attempted to combat the monopolistic practices of the United Booking Office (UBO) and the Vaudeville Managers Association (VMA), groups formed by vaudeville theater managers to keep performers' wages low and control when and where performers were allowed to work.
British vaudeville performers, performing in a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.